Mission Trails Hike with Leash Your Fitness

She's a bad ass. BOL! Every time our friends Anna comes hiking with us, she cracks us up. She an incredible athlete...she does marathons, triathlons and loves to hike. But, she also takes her fashion very seriously, and always looks fantastic when we are out on the trail.

And don't let those little dogs fool ya. They can hike with the best of them, often doing 10-12 miles...on their own, with minimal pick-up-age. If Mom tried to take me on a 10 mile hike, she'd be wearin me on her shoulders in order to get back to the car! 

It was still kind of hot when we did this hike. We were all wondering when we were going to get our fall weather!.

The fog hung in the valleys and looked kind of cool.

We of course were forced to take a group picture.

and then we hiked UP! Up to the top of that ridge in front of me.

and up....

and up....

my tongue was hangin! good thing Mom always brings lots of water!

We made it to the top! What a view we had!

another fun hike with Leash Your Fitness. I love fall & winter...its always too hot to do these during the summer! Can't wait for the next one coming up this weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wordless Wednesday

Snapdragon's update

Snapdragon ended up having surgery last Monday, and staying over night at the vet.

Mom was a bit upset when she got the email from the rescue saying the vet decided against repairing her jaw, deciding to remove the broken piece instead. How was she going to look?

Mom imagined the worst, her entire lower jaw missing...her tongue always hanging out, but the rescue assured her Snapdragon was going to be able to eat and drink without a problem.

Did the vet make this decision because it was cheaper to remove the jaw than repair it? Would the decision been different if Snapdragon had been owned by a family instead of being a rescue? It was a very upsetting day.

As we drove to pick Snapdragon up Tuesday evening, Mom tried to prepare herself for the worst. She was such a sweet dog, it wouldn't matter what she looked like, right?

Much to Mom's pleasure and surprise, Snappy looked amazing! We could hardly tell anything was wrong with her. The vet ended up just removing the broken piece, which was basically her right lower canine and one or two teeth next to it. Phew!! We were so happy for Snappy!!

She'll be with us for another few weeks, first her jaw has to heal and then she'll need to be spayed. There are already several applications for her though, so we are sure she's gonna find a wonderful family!

Snapdragon!

Even though we weren't quite ready for a new foster, this girl just kind of fell into our laps...almost literally!!

Our most favoritest neighbor across the street also fosters for Second Chance Dog Rescue, and someone in the neighborhood must have known it because last Friday she walked out her front door to find two scared pups in her yard. They were skin and bones and one of them (the black little girl) had a horribly broken jaw.

Male

Female with broken jaw

these two were very bonded!

She was on her way out and didn't have anywhere to keep the pups, so she took them to the nearest animal shelter and was going to put a HOLD on them so nothing bad would happen to them and the rescue could get them later. Unfortunately, the animal shelter said they would immediately put the little girl to sleep because she was in 'inhumane' pain due to her broken jaw. Well, my bestest neighbor would have none of that, so she worked her magic with the rescue and got the little girl into the vet for an exam.

X-rays were taken, pain meds & antibiotics were given, and then Mom got a call asking if she could take the girl in. Of course Mom couldn't say No!

So, the little girl became Snapdragon and our official foster. She got a bath and some food, and when Mom was checking out her jaw she noticed her teeth. They weren't puppy teeth at all! This girl was actually about 9 or 10 months old and not a puppy after-all!

She was terrified of everything that first day. Me included!I tried to tell her I was a nice boy, and Mom kept saying she was so proud of me cuz I just backed off and ignored her once I knew she was scared of me.

After about an hour she started relaxing a bit. She was still terrified of the kitTONS, but who wouldn't be? Especially Fergie...she is never very nice to our new fosters.

She loosened up even more over the weekend and seemed to not even notice her broken jaw. She even tried chewing on one of my bones, but that creeped Mom out so she quickly took it away from her.

Monday morning she had to go back to the vet and possibly have surgery to repair her jaw. We'll tell you more about that in another post!